Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stevenson's burial, Goldberg was invited to ride along with the presidential party on Air Force One. Again, during the flight from Washington and back, the two talked at length about the U.N. job. Again, the President did not ask the obvious question, but Goldberg got the drift. "I was very troubled," he said later. That night Johnson phoned the Justice at George Washington University Hospital, where Goldberg was visiting his ailing mother-in-law, and finally made the offer. Goldberg hedged, told the President that he did not think he was the best man for the job; that...
Yelps & Bruises. On one two-mile stretch of the Apple River near Somerset, Wis., as many as 2,000 tubers drift by on a sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
...Sandia scientists twice lofted beacon lights up to 65,000 ft. and allowed them to drift down by parachute through the part of the atmosphere that was suspected of causing twinkling. Each descent was continuously observed with a 16-in. tracking telescope equipped to record the scintillations. The scientists concluded that 80% of the high-frequency scintillation occurs in a layer of atmosphere about 5,000 ft. deep, at altitudes of between...
...surprise. "I'm going to start motor racing," he said. "Oh no you're not," said Mrs. Clark. Thereupon, Jim angrily kicked the throttle, gave the steering wheel a flick, and sent the car hurtling through a curve at 70 m.p.h. in a perfectly controlled drift. His mother said nothing more...
...Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells a pint-sized Circe attuned to evils as old as the human heart...